A. Bartlett Giamatti quotes

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching. (A. Bartlett Giamatti)
For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience. View quote
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Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building. View quote
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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League. View quote
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I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures. View quote
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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process. View quote
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No one man is superior to the game. View quote
A. Bartlett Giamatti
There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind. View quote
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There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew. View quote
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I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism. View quote
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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another. (A. Bartlett Giamatti)
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well. View quote
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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer. View quote
A. Bartlett Giamatti
Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society. View quote
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We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans. View quote
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My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs. View quote
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The professionals must set a good example. View quote
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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way. View quote
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There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball. View quote
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I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college. View quote
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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace. (A. Bartlett Giamatti)
Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations. View quote
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Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas. View quote
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This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did. View quote
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Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive. View quote
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